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Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective, with a New Preface

Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective, with a New Preface

Kam, Ephraim

Paperback

General Political ScienceMilitary Strategy

ISBN10: 0674013549
ISBN13: 9780674013544
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 15 2004
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.18 Depth: 9.42
Language: English
Ephraim Kam observes surprise attack through the eyes of its victim in order to understand the causes of the victim's failure to anticipate the coming of war. Emphasizing the psychological aspect of warfare, Kam traces the behavior of the victim at various functional levels and from several points of view in order to examine the difficulties and mistakes that permit a nation to be taken by surprise. He argues that anticipation and prediction of a coming war are more complicated than any other issue of strategic estimation, involving such interdependent factors as analytical contradictions, judgmental biases, organizational obstacles, and political as well as military constraints.

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